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Admired for her outstanding musicianship, extraordinary sensitivity and virtuosity, pianist Angela Yoffe has performed in the concert halls of United States, Europe, Japan and Canada.
Ms. Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia into a family of highly respected musicians. Her talent was recognized at the age of four when she began her music education. Before immigrating to Israel she studied with Faina Bulavko and Ilze Graubin and later with Victor Derevianko in Tel-Aviv. Angela continued her studies in the US with Joaquin Achucarro at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She has been a piano assistant in the violin studio of Ms. Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, where she has studied chamber music with Jonathan Feldman. She is currently a member of the piano faculty of Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Angela Yoffe has received top prizes in many competitions, including the Dvarionas International Piano Competition in Lithuania. She also won the Edna Ocker Best Accompanist Award at the Corpus Christi International Competition. Her extensive collaboration with violinist Vadim Gluzman has taken her to the festivals in Verbier and Lockenhaus, Festival de Radio France, Colmar, MIDEM Festival, Ravinia Festival, Pablo Casals and the Schwetzingen Festspiele.
In the summer of 2003, collaborating with violinist Vadim Gluzman and choreographer John Neumeier, Angela Yoffe premiered Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano in adaptation for the Hamburg Ballet, with additional performances in September 2003. The world premiere recording of the Preludes (which was written for Mr. Gluzman and Ms. Yoffe) was released on BIS Records to rave reviews, as was their second album entitled Time… and Again, featuring music by Schnittke, Vasks, Pärt and Kancheli. In March, 2006, their third album on BIS Records was released featuring the Shostakovich Sonata for Violin and Piano.
As a chamber musician and recitalist Angela Yoffe has performed in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Rome and Tokyo. She has also appeared with the Seattle Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra and with New York’s Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Victor Yampolsky and the legendary Jens Nygaard.
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